A Discourse On the Study of the Law of Nature And Nations
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If we could raise ourselves to thatheight from which we ought to survey so vast a subject, these exceptionswould altogether vanish; the brutality of a handful of savages woulddisappear in the immense prospect of human nature, and the murmurs of afew licentious sophists would not ascend to break the general harmony. This consent of mankind in first principles, and this endless variety intheir application, which is one among many valuable truths which we maycollect from our present extensive acqu...aintance with the history of man, is itself of vast importance. Much of the majesty and authority ofvirtue is derived from their consent, and almost the whole of practicalwisdom is founded on their variety.
What former age could have supplied facts for such a work as that ofMontesquieu? He indeed has been, perhaps justly, charged with abusingthis advantage, by the undistinguishing adoption of the narratives oftravellers of very different degrees of accuracy and veracity. But if wereluctantly confess the justness of this objection; if we are compelledto own that he exaggerates the influence of climate, that he ascribestoo much to the foresight and forming skill of legislators, and far toolittle to time and circumstances, in the growth of politicalconstitutions; that the substantial character and essential differencesof governments are often lost and confounded in his technical languageand arrangement; that he often bends the free and irregular outline ofnature to the imposing but fallacious geometrical regularity of system;that he has chosen a style of affected abruptness, sententiousness, andvivacity, ill suited to the gravity of his subject: after all theseconcessions (for his fame is large enough to spare many concessions), the Spirit of Laws will still remain not only one of the most solid anddurable monuments of the powers of the human mind, but a strikingevidence of the inestimable advantages which political philosophy mayreceive from a wide survey of all the various conditions of humansociety.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
If we could raise ourselves to thatheight from which we ought to survey so vast a subject, these exceptionswould altogether vanish; the brutality of a handful of savages woulddisappear in the immense prospect of human nature, and the murmurs of afew licentious sophists would not ascend to break the general harmony. This consent of mankind in first principles, and this endless variety intheir application, which is one among many valuable truths which we maycollect from our present extensive acqu...aintance with the history of man, is itself of vast importance. Much of the majesty and authority ofvirtue is derived from their consent, and almost the whole of practicalwisdom is founded on their variety.
What former age could have supplied facts for such a work as that ofMontesquieu? He indeed has been, perhaps justly, charged with abusingthis advantage, by the undistinguishing adoption of the narratives oftravellers of very different degrees of accuracy and veracity. But if wereluctantly confess the justness of this objection; if we are compelledto own that he exaggerates the influence of climate, that he ascribestoo much to the foresight and forming skill of legislators, and far toolittle to time and circumstances, in the growth of politicalconstitutions; that the substantial character and essential differencesof governments are often lost and confounded in his technical languageand arrangement; that he often bends the free and irregular outline ofnature to the imposing but fallacious geometrical regularity of system;that he has chosen a style of affected abruptness, sententiousness, andvivacity, ill suited to the gravity of his subject: after all theseconcessions (for his fame is large enough to spare many concessions), the Spirit of Laws will still remain not only one of the most solid anddurable monuments of the powers of the human mind, but a strikingevidence of the inestimable advantages which political philosophy mayreceive from a wide survey of all the various conditions of humansociety.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Mackintosh James Sir to read onlineMoreLess
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